tagged: torture • the Open Siddur Project ✍ פְּרוֺיֶקְט הַסִּדּוּר הַפָּתוּחַ https://opensiddur.org/tagged/torture/ a community-grown, libre Open Access archive of Jewish prayer and liturgical resources Fri, 25 Sep 2026 17:09:45 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 https://opensiddur.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Open-Siddur-Project-Logo-2015-5509b4bdv1_site_icon-250x250.png tagged: torture • the Open Siddur Project ✍ פְּרוֺיֶקְט הַסִּדּוּר הַפָּתוּחַ https://opensiddur.org/tagged/torture/ 32 32 על חטא | For the Sin of Torture: A Communal Confession by Rabbi Ed Feld https://opensiddur.org/prayers/collective-welfare/trouble/conflicts-over-sovereignty-and-dispossession/for-the-sin-of-torture-a-communal-confession-by-ed-feld-rabbis-for-human-rights-n-america/ https://opensiddur.org/prayers/collective-welfare/trouble/conflicts-over-sovereignty-and-dispossession/for-the-sin-of-torture-a-communal-confession-by-ed-feld-rabbis-for-human-rights-n-america/#comments Wed, 19 Sep 2012 09:19:43 +0000 http://opensiddur.org/?p=5245 al ḥet found in the maḥzor. This prayer written by Rabbi Ed Feld in 2007 for Yom Kippur 5768 was first published at the website of RHR-NA (now T'ruah).]]> Source (Hebrew) Translation (English)
עַל חֵטְא שֶׁחָטָאנוּ לְפָנֶיךָ
בְּעַלִימַת עַיִן.‏
For the sin which we have committed before You
for averting our eyes.
עַל חֵטְא שֶׁחָטָאנוּ לְפָנֶיךָ
בְּסְטִימַת אוֹזֶן.‏
For the sin which have committed before You
for closing our ears.
עַל חֵטְא שֶׁחָטָאנוּ לְפָנֶיךָ
בְּפַּחְדָנוּת יְתֵירָה.‏
For the sin which we have committed before you
through excessive fear.
עַל חֵטְא שֶׁחָטָֽאנוּ לְפָנֶיךָ
בְּהַקְטָנַת צֶלֶם אֱלֹהִים.‏
For the sin which we have committed before You
through diminishing the image of God.
עַל חֵטְא שֶׁחָטָאנוּ לְפָנֶיךָ
בְּיִסוּרים וְעִנוּיִים שֶׁגָמַלְנוּ לַזוּלַת.‏
For the sin which we have committed before You
for the suffering and torture committed on others.
עַל חֵטְא שֶׁחָטָאנוּ לְפָנֶיךָ
בְּאַלִימוּת שֶׁנַעַשָׂה בִּשְׁמֵנוּ.‏
For the sin which we have committed before You
with the violence done in our name.
וְעַל חֵטְא שֶׁחָטָאנוּ לְפָנֶיךָ
בְּיוֹדְעִים וּבְלֹא יוֹדְעִים.‏
For the sin which we have committed before You
with our full knowledge or without our knowledge.
וְעַל כֻּלָּם, אֱלוֹהַּ סְלִיחוֹת,
סְלַח לָנוּ, מְחַל לָנוּ, כַּפֶּר־לָנוּ.‏
V’al kulam eloah s’liḥot,
s’laḥ lanu, m’ḥal lanu, kaper lanu.
 
For all these sins, forgiving God,
forgive us, pardon us, grant us atonement.

רבנים למען זכויות האדם־צפון אמריקה, ימים נוראים תשס”ח (5768/2008)‏

This liturgy is based on the traditional public confession of sins on Yom Kippur and is meant to complement the existing al ḥet found in the maḥzor. This prayer written by Rabbi Ed Feld in 2007 for Yom Kippur 5768 was first published at the website of RHR-NA (now T’ruah).

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